Taxi Nights- Albanian Louie and Me

IT's been two years since I worked for ACS. Now I am a taxi driver on the night time streets of New York. People have told me there's a book somewhere in the mix and I'm trying to write it here at www.taxinights.blogspot.com

Matt Skis The Void. And pulls rules out of who knows where.

Matt is an ex ACS worker who takes exception to me and to what I did and did not do in the child fatality case that helped precipitate the showdown I had with Adegbola, Vargas and the idiocracy of Administration for Children's Services. Here is his link.

http://skiingthevoid.wordpress.com/

Matt makes up rules as he goes along and despises the poor who were his "clients."

Here is one Matt exchange
"Putting Your Personal Life Onto the Sidewalk, For The Daily News To See...."
Matt said...
I am surprised you lasted as long as you did there. I made it through only a few months, and I have to agree that ACS was far more problematic to deal with than any of my clients. I was lucky to have awesome supervision, but it wasn't for me and I went quickly back to the private sector. The problems there are quite serious and far-reaching, bad casework is only a small part of it. There are some great people, but there are not enough of them. In the interest of equal time, I found it a waste of my life to deal with the stupid problems of uneducated people who made the very poor choice to reproduce without having the mental or financial means to support that bad decision. Clients: Please stop doing drugs. Please stop beating your wife and children. Please go back to school and finish your education. School & Work is whats going on, there is no option 3. Also, this site would be a little more credible without the odd mixture of soft-porn and pseudospirituality.

January 28, 2008 6:39 PM


Eugene Weixel said...
Matt, the soft porn is a stab at irony and perhaps it doesn't work.

As for what you call pseudo spirituality I do believe there is a God of justice and mercy and I do believe there is right and wrong. Most ACS staff would profess a belief in and a fear of God. I try to address them on this level.

As for your attitude toward the poor and their right to reproduce I'm totally against it. I oppose all anti human ideologies such as Malthusianism which is old time nazism. There are not "too many people" on earth, there are too many two legged pigs.

February 6, 2008 12:48 PM

Here is the second exchange with Matt:
"Jean-Philippe, Joycelyn (ACS),- Can't read for comprenesion too well. (Revised June 1, 2007)" Matt said...
Anytime there is a child fatality, it is of the utmost necessity that the home still be assessed immediately and thoroughly for the presence and/or safety of any remaining children. Every square inch thoroughly examined. Any failure to act on the part of ACS/ECS in this instance could've resulted in additional child injury and/or fatality, regardless of police involvement and what the ORT said. The police do police work, not Child Protective work. You don't know anything for sure about the presence or condition of any other children in the home until you go in and verify. I would think that is obvious. You are VERY lucky you didn't wind up on the front page of the Post on this one.

January 28, 2008 7:01 PM


Eugene Weixel said...
Matt said:
"Anytime there is a child fatality, it is of the utmost necessity that the home still be assessed immediately and thoroughly for the presence and/or safety of any remaining children. Every square inch thoroughly examined"

Where did you get this "regulation"? Did you pull it out of your ass?


Matt you are wrong. Do you really think that if a child in Soho or Tribeca or Central Park West or President Street dies ACS comes barging into the home without a warrant at two in the morning after the detectives have already torn the place apart??

Read what I wrote, this time for comprehension. We went to the home even though there was no legitimate CPS report. The state 800 operator in the case spiced up the report the second time around, but I was alreaduy enroute to the apartment. The father denied us entry. He asked us to come back at a reasonable hour. He refused to allow us to awaken and terrorize his neighbors who had helped him at that unGodly hour. He refused to allow us to terrorize his surviving child.

Matt you might have barged in without a warrant and possibly would have gotten away with it too.

Interestingly Hani Malek, the Supe I who accompanied me on the case was soon promoted once I submitted my resignation from ACS. Adegbola and the crew who rang everyone's doorbell in that Harlem apartment building of course had no consequences for their lawless acts. People like them are lucky that the poor tend to be overwhelmed with surviving because that allows impunity. I do believe that there is justice somewhere. God hates ugly.

I intend to post on this and also on what you represented as a CPS worker.

February 6, 2008 1:08 PM

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Well then just what does Matt represent as a CPS worker? He represents a mode of thought that justifies the State interfering in the raising of poor and minority children from a point of view that these children should never have been born to begin with. He justifies terrorizing poor and minority parents and government lawlessness. He represents state undermining of parental authority. He represents the government imposition of a certain religious point of view- that the Bible was wrong in its advice for parents : Proverbs 13:24 “Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.” While I personally do not agree with this Bible passage, it is in the bible, millions of people believe it is correct, millions have been raised this way and have gone on to be productive human beings and the government has no right to impose it's viewpoint, or mine, or Matt's on parents in their homes. In fact I'd like to ask Matt if he would do a survey among his fellow real estate investors: Find out how many of them received physical discipline from their parents. Then find out if any former foster children are among them. I'll go it even further than that: Find out how many had parents who had drug or alcohol problems, and in whose homes the father hit the mother. I think he'll find many, many, many who were physically disciplined and who also had troubled homes, but damned few if any real estate investors who survived New York City's foster care system.

Just as he cannot understand how I lasted ten and a half years in Child Protective Services I don't understand why he wanted to leave it. Oh, money.

RAMON VARGAS, STILL LURKING

RAMON LIVES IN EDISON. WHO LIVES IN PISCATAWAY?
I WOULD ADVISE BOTH OF THEM TO KEEP MY FAMILY OUT OF THIS.

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If Mattingly can be a liar, why not Maradesa Sunday Adegbola?

JOHN MATTINGLY WAS OF COURSE VERY DISHONEST WITH THIS POOR MOM WHOSE CHILD IS A VICTIM OF A CRUEL AND IDIOTIC KIDNAPPING BY ACS SUBMORONS. HE SHIFTS THE BLAME TO A JUDGE, WHEN IT IS HIS PEOPLE WHO INITIATED THE CASE AND IT IS HE AND HIS PEOPLE WHO COULD SIMPLY WITHDRAW THE CASE. NO WONDER ADEGBOLA SHIFTED THE BLAME FOR THE "ELMHURST HOSPITAL CHINESE GIRL CASE" FROM VARGAS AND HIMSELF ONTO A SUBORDINATE. LYING AND ACS, THEY GO TOGETHER.

Mother makes desperate plea to child welfare agency for return of daughter
BY JESS WISLOSKI

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, December 6th 2007, 4:00 AM
The mother of a 6-year-old girl in city custody on allegations that her parents are mentally ill Wednesday made an emotional plea directly to the head of the city child welfare agency.
More than three months after Amber James was taken from her South Ozone Park home, her frustrated mom confronted city Administration for Children's Services Commissioner John Mattingly at a public conference on the agency's ongoing reforms.
"ACS has kidnapped my daughter wrongfully!" Vanessa James, 41, said at the gathering at the New School in Manhattan.
A pediatrician reported Vanessa James to authorities over concerns that she may suffer from Munchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare disease where a parent believes the child is sick - or makes them sick - to get attention.
Vanessa James and her husband, Marvin James, 48, have been to numerous court hearings since Amber was placed into the foster care system on Aug. 23. But they have not been charged with any crime, and neither has been found to be mentally ill.
"They found us innocent," Vanessa James said to Mattingly during the question-and-answer portion of the panel discussion.
"My daughter's being held prisoner," the desperate mother said. "What do we do now?"
After she made charges that her daughter has been abused while in foster care, Vanessa James was interrupted by the panel's moderator, who asked Mattingly to respond.
"I can feel the hurt in your voice," Mattingly said. "I know about this situation. I know it's in court and hearings have been held and will be held. ... It is up to the court to make the future decisions."
Amber's case has become a public tug-of-war between her parents and the ACS since the Daily News first reported the family's plight in September.
Ironically, yesterday's forum was largely devoted to announcing an ACS pilot program to increase family services and reduce foster-care placements.
After Vanessa James' plea, several welfare workers attending the forum referred to Amber's case as an example of the ongoing problems at ACS.
"Children are being abused" in foster care, said Sharonne Salaam of People United for Children, an advocacy group. Yet ACS has failed to crack down on foster care abuse, she charged.
Susan Loeb, of Voices of Women, said the ACS hotline is often abused.
"Malicious reports are an epidemic in many communities," Loeb said. "Anyone with an ax to grind can call, without any real consequences."
jwisloski@nydailynews.com
If you care about your immortal soul, your relationship with God or The Higher Power you do not want to become a Child Protective Specialist. REad this blog and learn why. Their lies destroy lives.

Not KT da QT

Eyecandy, now that's a sexist, exploitative MCP word, right? Well in my humble opinion men and women who are blessed to be healthy, are in the prime of life and take care of their bodies are joys to behold. Us humans ideally are quite nice to look at. Don't you think so?



I haven't decided how often I'll be bringing you new eye candy but trust me, it'll be frequently.

Anyhow, KT da QT worked as a clerk, when she worked, in applications at ECS. This allowed her time to do schoolwork and she basically never had to go to the field. She caught married man child protective manager's eye and from there it was up, up and up and now she is wearing a rock, meets the moanster outside the office and is a Supe II!

How'sm that for the land of opportunity?

Meet six year old Amber James and the women who abandoned her at Kings County Mental Ward waiting room one fine midnight.

Bulletin dated 11/23/07
There is erroneous information here that must be corrected. Geralsine Fowler did not abandon Amber at the Kings County Psychiatic Hospital waiting room. She is the worker whose efforts did get A,er put into foster care and abusd, but the credit fo abandoning the child at the gates of mayhem goes to Adrian Prichette of St. Vincent foster care agency.

ACS in its typical outlaw mode has not complied with the order of the Family Court to place Amber in a kinship home by Thanksgiving.


Amber James, a child who was never abused until she had to meet up with ACS and monster Geraldine.

This is not Geraldine Fowler, the ACS child protective specialist from Queens who of course is not the one who set up six year old Amanda James to be kidnapped, sexually molested, beaten, deprived of food and told her mother was dead under the loving care of John Mattingly. It is not the same Geraldine Fowler who abandoned the six year old in a mental ward waiting room at midnight because "I had to go home."

No this is not Geraldine. Geraldine does not seem to like water that much.

Cumming soon, KT da QT

None of these are supe 2 KT da QT but she is as hot as any of them. Like I said, CPM Ramon Vargas is not an idiot!
You guys who ended up in a job at Administration For Children's Services or in any Child Protective Services job in the USA or anywhere in the English speaking world are gonna dig this post. Stay tuned.

Q&A: Is this an extremist website? Does it go too far against Child Protective Services?

Q- Aren't you just a disgruntled ex employee?
A- I worked for Administration for Children's Services for more than ten years, eight of those years as a child protective investigator in their Emergency Children's Services. Because my work was thorough and I was a dedicated employee I was among the minority granted a merit pay raise. I was a worker who could be called upon to go into the field in order to correct the blunders of others, and I did that several times.

I had myself convinced that I could do some good from "inside the system" and in a sense sometimes I did help individuals in my casework, more often though, the system was going to do what it does best- mess things up - with me or without me. The system is designed to do what it does.

I was assigned as a one worker "Instant Response Team" unit and worked as such for around two years, going to the most difficult cases, working along with detectives of the Special victims and Sex Abuse squads of the NYPD. Ultimately I decided that I should be in a "regular unit" and so I went to work under Mr. Adegbola. He is not a good supervisor, though he is a nice guy. I reached a point where I simply was not going to harm other people just because Adegbola couldn't understand what was going on in some cases. Also I was at loggerheads with Mr. Vargas especially after he idiotically ordered me to transport sex abuse and domestic violence victims in one case back to the man who had them terrorized from a shelter where I had brought them. I refused an offer to be put aside once again and be given autonomy in my work. I felt that I was not the problem, and I wasn't! ultimately the management had the Department of investigations take the hard drive from my workstation and lo and behold, they say they found unauthorized emails and Internet contacts. (As virtually the entire municipal workforce that has access to computers would have.) Out of disgust after ACS Commissioner John Mattingly (not to be confused with Don Mattingly who posted from a blog of mine some very damaging information about ACS) emailed me to my home and told me that he did not want me to take advantage of his "open door" policyI resigned and took my pension, since I had signed up for an early retirement package upon my entry into ACS. I left them on my 60th birthday and presently I am happily a yellow taxicab driver on the night shift in NYC (see my blog TAXI NIGHTS).

Q- It's very extreme of you Mr. Weixel to tell people not to call reports against parents to ACS, isn't it?
A- It isn't extreme at all. After all our city and nation survived for many years without anything that looked like Administration for Children's Services. The fact is the only thing ACS ultimately does to "protect" "maltreated" children is to destroy their families, traumatize them and prepare them for a life of institutionalization.
God Is Love. We need to love each other and take care of each other, and not turn to moronic government programs that are proven to to work. (For the record- fire departments work, they put out fires and save lives, homes and workplaces from destruction, public housing works, it provides decent housing to millions of people, food stamps work, they provide food to millions of people including rookie NYPD officers by the way.) - I'm talking about idiotic interventions into the lives of free and autonomous human beings, typified by what is called Child Welfare or Child Protective Services, and includes foster care and subzidized adoption.

ACS functions on a level of incompetency, disregard for human and civil rights and impunity that are hard to match. This blog focuses on one manager in their Emergency Children's Services department, but the truth is, he might not even be the worse that they have, he's just the worse that I had occasion to work with. Did you know that after the Nixzmary fiasco (read my blog ACS MUST BE STOPPED to be filled in about Nixzmary) they fired or demoted to civil service rank ten managers? (The managers at ACS are not civil service employees and they are not unionized. They have their jobs at the pleasure of Mayor Bloomberg.)

Now if these managers were worse than Vargas that would be something! It would be quite an indictment of the system in which they had become managers and functioned as managers to begin with. I suspect however that they were not particularly worse than Vargas, but that once word came down from John Mattingly that some managers needed to be purged they got rid of ten who aren't sociable, or are the wrong ethnicity, for their particular office, or who are too serious, or who authorized "too much overtime." Whether they were worse than Vargas or not it's a sign of just how terribly run the agency is. When you make a child maltreatment report you are handing a family over to these kinds of people. Can your conscience allow that?

Q- But what about the abused children. Child Abuse is real, Weixel.
A- Yes, it is real. It is found everywhere, isn't it, including and especially in foster homes and group homes. Most ACS cases are not "abuse" cases. Most ACS cases (the majority of which have no supporting evidence according to ACS) are called "maltreatment" cases. These can be matters of "dirty homes" or old fashioned discipline, the kind that has existed for thousands of years in Judeo/Christian/Islamic cultures and that I suspect a vast majority of readers of this blog themselves know of first hand. Personally I don't agree with "physical discipline" but I do not see a legitimate government function to be destroying families and locking up parents who believe in what the majority believes in.

Q- Did you say Locking up parents?

A- Yes, good parents, you bet I did. Non white inner city parents get locked up for hitting their children with belts, for the kinds of things that do not result in incarceration in New York City's predominantly white neighboring counties.

Q- But what about abuse cases? Real abuse.
A- First of all even these cases are often blown out of proportion and the majority of them are found to have no supporting evidence. I remember vividly a case of a girl who had definitely been violated according to an emergency room doctor. Police went into action and brought all her siblings into a hospital to be examined. The child was taken out of her home. The next day the hospital's child abuse expert ruled that there had been no abuse. This sort of thing happens, and happens often. But yes, there is abuse. When someone actually abuses another person that criminal should be prosecuted, no? If the criminal is removed from the home the children involved do not have to be removed.

Communities are important. A corrupt and idiotic government agency cannot replace a community. Frankly during a time when I was coming to realize that God is real I was moved to see a church pastor, and congregants come down to a police station house to volunteer themselves and their homes to keep some children out of the horrendous foster care system. It occurred to me that most if not all of the single mothers caught up in the system and their children being violated by The State, need to be in a church, a mosque or a synagogue or community organization (formal or informal) that can function this way. - In this case a police Sergeant decided (not me or my boss) that the child in question had to go to a juvenile detention facility "pending investigation" (imagine that in a country where we claim to uphold rule of law and presumption of innocence!) This child- a boy, a black child, was a barely articulate, most likely mentally delayed and not "tough" non "streetwise" and he was going to Spofford because a police sergeant wouldn't allow his community to handle or even participate in handling a family problem, which this case really was! In this case a retarded boy might have been molesting another child in his home. Instead of bringing help, the system brought charges that their poor overwhelmed overburdened guardian was negletcful! All the children were traumatized rather than helped. Congregants offered to take each child or any child into their homes and they were refused and rebuffed by the order of a police sergeant!

Don Mattingly Is Not John Mattingly
Click here to see how New York Yankee baseball great Don Mattingly made that clear.

I'd like to spend less time driving a taxi and more time fighting the evils that CPS inflicts in the name of protecting children. Help by buying posters from this site.

Some people call him Lurk and really he's no jerk.

Two Headed Rat Snake

Well they called him Lurk because he would lurk behind file cabinets listening in and then he would report back to Bernstein as to who was saying what about who.

A godfather or Rabbi rocketed him from lowly caseworker to SupII just before the new "reform" requirements kicked in and gave him the title of "
Instant Response Coordinator."
After about two weeks of "experience supervising an actual unit (the slowest time period and with all veteran workers) he was ready to be put in the Child Protective Manager, never even having passed a supervisor exam.
Now, tell me is that the story of a jerk?

When the Whitick case blew up he was given a pass even though he was manager on duty when the case was sent over to Emergency children's Services. I know of more than one case in which he put children in jeopardy. I wonder what other cases he might have messed up.

The demonstration has been postponed indefinitely because I got hit by a car and the demonstration relies on me to organize it.

I got knocked down by a car and am not able to get around much right now.

ACS Must Be STopped Will Be At City Hall

The protest is indefinitely postponed.




New York City's Department of Investigations has just discovered that after ten years of so called "reform" the Administration for Children's Services Division of Child Protection, for which I worked for over ten years, is more messed up than before.

When I tried to inform the ACS Commissioner of some of the same problems and also the DOI what I got for my efforts was an investigation of me. They found unauthorized emails and links on my desktop, me one of thousands, and brought charges against me.

ACS knows all and more than what the DOI is telling the Mayor now. They have willfully not wanted to know.

Mattingly, the commissioner is one of these white guys in a suit who likes to say things like "I'm responsible" "The buck stops here" and "I call 'em like I see "em" but he also likes to say and says more these days than before "It's not my fault."


NEW YORK (AP) -- City workers charged with investigating child abuse and neglect reports sometimes simply took parents at their word when they denied the allegations. Sometimes they closed cases without even trying to interview people who probably had relevant information.
At least one manager doctored records -- after a child died -- to make it look as though he had been on the case more diligently than he had.
Spotlighting those problems and more, a damning new report on the city child welfare agency called for significant changes after 10 children died as a result of bungled investigations..."

Now, to see what I've been trying to tell these fools, go to
http://www.acsmustbestopped.com/

and
http://www.cpmramonvargasisnotanidiot.com/

Ramon Vargas is one of many incompetent managers at ACS who is shielded with an aura of impunity.

Threats work.

Having gotten an anonymous letter at my home that threatens my family, and not any legal action, a letter whose information indicates that the source is within Administration For Children's Services, I am going to meet the threatener's demands part way in the interests of my family's tranquility and safety.

I am editing certain parts of this and other blogs.

Mr. Anonymous cries foul.(Revised June 1, 2007)

I got a snail mail letter today claiming I have libled someone. Should I be scared? Of what - an anonymous complainant who can't even specify what he or she is complaining about? Well, what about "we know where you live"? Or even "we know who your kids are"?

You've threatened my wife and children. This is something you would be good at doing, as most likely you are a seasoned staffer at Emergency Children's Services and threatening women and children with an actual kidnaping here and there- that's actually your profession, isn't it?

The Anonymous caseworker. (revised Tuesday May 22)

An anonymous post to this blog, probably made by a caseworker, or Child Protective Specialist from Emergency Children's Services gave the name of the woman he or she believes is Ramon Vargas' at work sex partner. The email blames the problems of Emergency Children's Services on this alleged dalliance. I erased the worker's name as soon as I saw this post.

The problems at ECS include cliquism and a viscious undercurent of animosity and division in the staff. This blog is not here to promote one clique over another nor to be a venue where one case worker atttacks the name of another.

Supervisor II's and managers are political appointees as well as government officials. Their actions do deserve the light of day.

An Open Letter to The Commissioner-Mattingly, Are You OK?

Saturday, May 05, 2007

Mayor Bloomberg appeared to shake his head in disbelief when his child welfare commissioner, John Mattingly, announced his cell phone number to a crowd of 230 rookie caseworkers at a graduation ceremony Tuesday morning.
Commissioner Mattingly, I also shook my head in disbelief when I read this on WNBC's website yesterday.
http://www.wnbc.com/politics/11127085/detail.html
I could understand why you gave your cell phone number to the new caseworkers- for a moment you put yourself in their shoes. They've just gone through a pretty intensive training and they're about to find out something that you could have told them but you didn't - that most of this training is going to be useless, because in your agency it is not the written word of procedure that rules, it is the spoken word of your line supervision and management. And frankly many of your line supervisors and managers don't even understand the concept of working under rules and regulations - ah, but you already know that, you read www.ACSmustbestopped.com, and you might have glanced at its companion website www.cpmramonvargasisnotanidiot.com.

Yes, these caseworkers are in for a shock. Some of them will be revulsed by things that people like Sunday Adegbola and Ramon Vargas want them to do- they'll want to let you know about it. But you already know about it.

But your odd behavior at the graduation tells of something else- your own meltdown. You came to ACS with ideas of reforming it and making it less destructive to the community- because you knew and still know that it is a destructive force, but one that seemingly is never going to go away. Your first real test was the Nixzmary Brown imbroglio. Any idiot knew that a doctor at Woodhull Hospital had given the child a clean bill of health, and any idiot could see through the NYPD nonsense that their elite secial victims squad had gone to Nixzmary's sibling's school to give security to caseworkers. Any idiot knows that special victims detectives are not caseworker bodyguards. Caseworkers have no body guards. But Mattingly, you folded. You gave your people up while the doctor, the nurse, the detectives skated. Then you folded again, a worse collapse- you gave up the children!

You allowed ignorant insensitive media owners and politicians to set your agenda.You knowingly allowed children who were not in any danger at all to be taken out of their homes in order to feed the monster of the media and the politicans' need to be "tough" on child abuse. You knew that this was a very dangerous game - that a removal panic leads to more child fatalities- not less child fatalities.

Now the numbers of child fatalities in ACS cases has soared on your watch, and your agency cannot even keep an accurate count of the children it is taking away from their parents. Also to the shame of this city the scandal of the illegal and unethical drug experiments that were done under mayors Koch, Dinkins and Giuliani are being swept under the rug with your active participation. I kind of think that you really feel a lot of shame, embarassment, and a dread of what may come next.

God is just, Mattingly. God has to be angry at what is being done at ACS. You know better than what you are doing, that is why you are acting strange.

What is the honorable thing to do? Call a press conference, tell the truth and resign.

By the way I plan on letting as many caseworkers as possible know that it is not a good idea to avail themselves of your open cell phone policy- because you will ultimately turn them over to their immediate bosses - the people they hope you'll correct. They only have to read www.acsmustbestopped and www.cpmramonvargasisnotanidiot to know that.

Sincerely,

Eugene Weixel
veteran caseworker

Individuals who are beyond shame.

Attorneys involved in litigation against Administration For Children's Services should be sure to read this blog. They will see how Administration For Children's Services has been warned time and time again regarding the incompetence of the namesakes of this blog. These warnings went all the way up to Commissioner John Mattingly, to Zeinab Chahine, to the Inspector General of The City of New York.

I'm not an attorney but I would guess that any harm that the manager who was on duty when the Whitick case came into ACS, that the manager who sent a teenage sex abuse victim and her mother who was terrorized by the father back to his control may have done your clients after these warnings were given by email and ignored (not really ignored, they set out to remove me from their agency) is all the more egregious.

A very competent and capable manager, Patrick Malia, who also has had well deserved fame as a caseworker who has won prestigious awards and recognition, and who is possibly the best softball coach John Jay College ever had, unfortunately sees his job as "incompetents protective manager" rather than (or perhaps in addition to) "Child Protective Manager". His name is on the emails because he is capable and in fact I know that he knows what I am saying is right. What a shame.

Why I say Ramon Vargas is a symbol of a system beyond repair.

Child Protective Manager Ramon Vargas makes decisions five days a week that can spell the difference between life and death. He is probably not the worse manager they have at Administration for Children's Services in New York, but he does symbolize what's irreparibly wrong with their system.

Vargas is a poster boy for two waves of so - called "reform" of ACS. The first "reform" wave he represents came in 1996 under the cowboys Rudolph Giliuliani and Nichola Scopetta, his sidekick. After announcing bold new strict and impressive requirements for the position of supervisor at ACS Giuliani and Scopetta went on to promote a whole cohort of unqualified supervisors- people who now run the agency.

Like many, Vargas neither passed a test nor won an advanced degree to become a supervisor. Like very few, Vargas got a direct appointment to Supervisor II (senior supervisor) with no experience whatever as a supervisor I (remember this guy never passed a test). He was given a position as an "Instant Response Team " coordinator and spent a few weeks supervising a unit of veterans who were scheduled for the quietest time of night at Emergency Children's Services and then - bingo! the man is a manager and IRT heavyweight.

To recall the Nixzmary Brown case is to learn a lot about the "Instant Response Team".

Then there is the Whittick case.

Then the cases I personally experienced working with Vargas.

Vargas is a protected species under the latest "reform" Commissioner John Mattingly, under whose watch child fatalities of children on the ACS caseloads has skyrocketed. Mattingly is a complete captive of the media and the go along get along paperpushers in his agency.

Because it deals with poor and minority and immigrant children and their families there is no consistent interest by the informed public about this agency, nor by the political establishment. Comes a slow news day, an all too common incident of a child being violently killed is splashed across the media, and the entire agency is sent into a tailspin, being ordered around by ignorant media moguls whose bottom line is not children, but media sales.

It is under this environment that someone like Vargas not only makes decisions that impact other people's lives, he blunders and is protected, because in truth high quality individuals with real qualifications do not want Vargas' job. He and those like him have this power by default.

It would be better to close down this monument to corruption and incompetence called Division of Child protection, Administration for Children's Services, have the police investigate real crimes, have a small unit assigned to placing the very few real victims of child abuse who have no friends or relatives to care for them and calling it a day.

You want to read about governmental idiocy? Read this blog.

To the Public- Don't Rat To ACS

DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR TO ACS- Don't talk to them!

The overwhelming majority of CPS cases nationwide and ACS cases in NYC are classified not as "abuse" cases but as "neglect" or what they now call "maltreatment."

These represent matters that are not and should not be the business of the government to begin with, NYPD or ACS!

If some one's life or well being is at imminent risk, then yes that's a police matter. Perhaps in a rare few of those cases there is no family or neighborhood informal solution as simple let's say as a kid goes to stay with a neighbor for a few days until a situation cools down or gets worked out between family and friends, and church, mosque or synagogue.

I know that ACS has a gigantic computerized data bank (called "Connections" and "CCRS") that tracks the hundreds of thousands of Black and Hispanic families, with details their lives, has lies and exaggerations spread throughout. ACS is not above printing these materials out and placing them unshredded on sidewalks either.

I know that foster care is almost never a good solution to whatever the problem may be, call it "maltreatment" or call it "abuse". These days after Mrs. H. Clinton got done with it foster care now more and more means never ever getting your child back. When ACS comes to your door it's serious! Don't let them in! The caseworkers are stressed out, tired out, many really couldn't care less about you and they report to and suck up to people like Ramon Vargas and Maradesa Adegbola. Not a good recipe for solving your problems, trust me on that!

The difference between how NYPD and ACS function in child abuse cases.

The NYPD is of course interested in finding crime and if they find it, commencing the process of justice. They also are interested in securing the safety of children and all others. I'm the last one to say that they do these things perfectly - I've seen them mess up on child protective situations, but I feel that they can do no worse and probably can do much better than can ACS in these acute situations. Frankly the investigating of child abuse should belong to them. Some of their errors are due to lack of training, while ACS staff is trained, trained and trained again, but ignores the training in practice.

In all of my cases that involved police I was alone, on the telephone to bosses trying to get their decisions as to what I should do, while there would be several cops, detectives, and when decision time came there would be a Sergeant, a Lt. or even a captain on the scene signing off.No ACS supervisor or manager ever came out to the ground level to see the situation first hand before issuing an order as to how to resolve a case. Cops just don't work like that.

When you read about the sex abuse case at Elmhurst Hospital you can imagine a phalanx of police, including a sergeant, as well as numerous medical staff and me, the sole ACS representative trying to get the undivided attention of an Adegbola over the telephone.

That just can't work well.

"I can't take another child fatality review board" (or words very much to that effect).

Yes, a supervisor at Emergency Children's Services was heard saying that and it actually got back to me!

Child fatality. He can't take another one!

A nice enough guy, but he's not an accident waiting to happen, he's an accident that has happened already, and more than once. If his accidents affected people who are counted as being important in this society he'd be gone- certainly from any job of responsibility.

This guy has real problems at home, it's no secret at ECS. He's stressed out and distracted. Any decent boss would take him aside, get him counseling, try to find help for his situation and by God, give the guy some job where he can function without hurting himself or others, like Ms. Bleefeld has.

What say you, Zeinab Chahine? (A hard copy of this post is on its way to her via snail mail.)

What's The Big Deal? (and thanks to the great ER staff at Elmhurst Hospital)

Q- Okay, so Vargas was the manager on duty and also the Instant Response Team coordinator when the Whitick case came in to ECS, so he didn't send a case worker to the kids, he did have someone make a phone call, didn't he?
A- Yes, well someone did, and Vargas was in charge under two different hats, that of manager on duty and of IRT coordinator. Question- were the kids beaten to a pulp before, during or after the brilliant telephone call?

Q- Okay, so Vargas sent a teenaged sex abuse victim out of the shelter system with her mom back to where the guy that the kid and mother had run to the precinct away from thirteen hours earlier. You hadn't done a home assessment, Weixel. (Ask Vargas, he said you needed to do a home assessment). Also Adegbola wrote into the case record that that you only provided second hand information on this case. Not to mention that veteran supervisor George Baird was the "night administrator" that night and he thought it was fine to send the kid back, right?

A- This is where it is hard to say that Adegbola is not an idiot, but truth is he is not an idiot. He has a Master's Degree. Even if his lie were true, and I had only got information from cops, detectives, social workers, nurses and doctors of Elmhurst Hospital (who were very helpful in this case by the way, - thanks) that night and not one word from the mom or kid (a bald faced lie by Adegbola and he can take me to court if he wants to) the information was clear that the kids and mom needed to get away from that step father. That's why next day Zeinab Chahine, number two at Administration for Children's Services, (skipped over twice, now that's not nice) and her buddies were at ECS trying to fix Vargas' blunder. Don't forget, this was not even a removal. The mother agreed to bring her children to the shelter system as domestic violence victims, which all of them were. I wonder who Vargas' rabbi is. Do you?

Q- What's this thing about the four month old? What did Adegbola and Vargas do in that one?

A- A young mom and her seventeen year old baby daddy had a fight at paternal grandmother's Bronx apartment, cops came and they decided that the mom had attacked the dad, and that the house looked fine and so they locked up the mother and left the baby at the grandma's apartment not calling ACS to see if there was any child abuse record and definitely not checking to see if grandma was a criminal herself.

As they often do (when they bother themselves to do it at all) the cops called CPS hours after they had taken their own action regarding a child's well being.

When mom got released from jail with charges dismissed, she called in a CPS report that I was assigned to. I found in the record that baby's daddy was a child himself who had been removed and ordered by a judge not to return to grandma's house because she had brought baby daddy and her other kids upstate to a prison and tried to smuggle some heroin to her man and got caught. So baby daddy was not allowed to be where he was, let alone the baby. A Bronx ACS worker had come there, looked around, liked the furniture and left. So I told Adegbola that I needed to go there and get that baby out of there, and if possible baby daddy too. I told him it would be good to go there with cops as there had been violence and grandma is a felon and I would be there to take her kid and grandkid. Adegbola blew his stack, got defensive of his turf as boss and well, I went to Vargas who backed Adegbola up. Only by writing my opinion into the case record and by emailing the honchos was this assinine decision reversed.

I have a question. Okay a lot of people know about the Whitick case but the two other ones. They just involved me alone. How many other caseworkers have stories they feel too afraid to tell anyone about idiotic decisions by Vargas and Adegbola? Probably quite a few.

The public needs to consider the caliber of people in charge at ACS before they make a mistake and put a family into their hands by making that phone call. Think about it. If it's an emergency call the cops, they won't do any worse at least than ACS does, and maybe they'll do better. If it's not an emergency leave the family alone. For God's sake we all have problems and not every problem has a neat clean solution. Foster care by God surely isn't one.

PS to the people at Elmhurst Hospital. This sex abuse/domestic violence case was an ACS case on the night of 2/10/05 into the morning of 2/11/05. You can see how I tried to get the attention of the higher ups at ACS to take action about the irresponsibility of Vargas and Adegbola and how I tried to get ACS to repair the damage they had done HERE.

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